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| Main Entry: | frisky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | full of spirit |
| Synonyms: | active, antic, bouncy, coltish, dashing, feeling one's oats, frolicsome, full of beans*, gamesome, high-spirited, in high spirits, jumpy, kittenish*, larkish, lively, peppy, playful, prankish, rollicking, romping, spirited, sportive, wicked, zesty, zippy |
| Antonyms: | depressed, down, lifeless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frolicsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful |
| Synonyms: | antic, frisky, fun, gay, gleeful, happy, impish, jocular, jovial, kittenish, lively, merry, mischievous, roguish, rollicking, sportive, sprightly, coltish, gamesome |
| Antonyms: | serious, staid, stiff |
| Main Entry: | jaunty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lively |
| Synonyms: | airy, animated, bold, brash, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, cocky, dapper, dashing, debonair, devil-may-care*, devilish, easy, exhilarated, flip*, flippant, forward, free, fresh, frisky, frolicsome, gay, high-spirited, hilarious, impetuous, impish, impudent, jocose, joking, jolly, jovial, light, natty, nervy, perky, playful, provocative, reckless, rollicking, self-confident, showy, smart, sportive, sporty, sprightly, spruce, trim, venturesome, vivacious, gamesome, prankish, swaggering |
| Antonyms: | depressed, lethargic, lifeless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | playful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | funny, fun-loving |
| Synonyms: | antic, blithe, cheerful, coltish, comical, elvish, feeling one's oats, flirtatious, frisky, frolicsome, full of pep, gamesome, gay, good-natured, impish, jaunty, jesting, jocund, joking, joyous, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, mischievous, prankish, puckish, rollicking, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, teasing, tongue-in-cheek*, vivacious, waggish, whimsical, zippy* |
| Antonyms: | humorless, serious, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sporting/sportive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful and fair |
| Synonyms: | antic, considerate, devil-may-care*, frisky, frolicsome, game, gay, generous, impish, jaunty, joyous, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, rollicking, sprightly, square, wild, coltish, full of fun, gamesome, larkish, sportspersonlike |
| Antonyms: | unfair, unplayful, unsporting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | waggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful |
| Synonyms: | amusing, blithe, bubbly, cheerful, comical, frolicsome, funny, gay, humorous, jaunty, jesting, jocular, jocund, joking, jolly, joyous, kittenish, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, snappy, spirited, teasing, whimsical, witty, clowning, gamesome |
| Main Entry: | sporting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful |
| Synonyms: | antic, considerate, devil-may-care, fair, frisky, frolicsome, game, gay, generous, gentlemanly, impish, jaunty, joyous, kittenish, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, rollicking, sportive, sprightly, square, waggish, wild, coltish, gamesome, larkish, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, square dealing, square shooting, straight shooting |
| Antonyms: | unsporting |
| Main Entry: | gay |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | alert, animate, animated, blithe, brash, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper*, confident, convivial, devil-may-care*, festive, forward, frivolous, frolicsome, glad, gleeful, hilarious, insouciant, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, keen, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, presuming, pushy, rollicking, self-assertive, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, wild, zippy*, blithesome, bouncy, chirpy, fun-loving, gamesome, pleasure-seeking |
| Antonyms: | depressed, discouraged, sad, unhappy, upset, worried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
hopeful, light, Abderian, airy, all alive, allegro, animated, blithe, blithesome, bonny, bright, brisk, brisk as a bee, buoyant, buxom, canty, cardiac, cardiacal, cheerful, cheering, cheerly, cheery, cock, elate, elated, essorant, exhilarating, exultant, exulting, flushed, free and easy, frisky, frolicsome, full of play, full of spirit, gamesome, gay as a lark, gelastic, gelogenic, gleesome, happy, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, heartsome, hilarious, in good spirits, in high feather, in high spirits, in spirits, inspiriting, janty, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jolly as a sand boy, jolly as a thrush, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughable, laughing, laughter, lively, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage, mirthful, mirthloving, of good cheer, ovant, palmy, playful, playful as a kitten, playsome, pleasing, rattling, ready to burst with laughter, ready to die with laughter, ready to split with laughter, rejoicing, rident, ridibund, risible, risorial, rollicking, smiling, sparkling, spirited, spiritful, sportive, sprightful, sprightly, spry, subrident, subrisive, sunny, tricksy, triumphant, unsoulclogged, vivacious, waggish, winsome
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